Business Definition for: average collected balance
average collected balance
average dollar amount on deposit in a checking account during an accounting period, equal to daily ledger balances less uncollected checks, divided by the number of days in a reporting period, usually a month.
See also
uncollected funds
,
available balance
Related Terms:
portion of bank deposit made up of checks that have not yet been collected by the depository bank-that is, payment has not yet been acknowledged by the bank on which a check was drawn. A bank will usually not let a depositor draw on uncollected funds.
checking account balance a customer actually has use of: the current balance, less deposits not yet posted to the account. Abank may sometimes include checking account cash reserve in computing the available balance.
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